Also known as Blanche Point Formation

Where: South Australia, Australia (35.3° S, 138.5° E: paleocoordinates 55.3° S, 133.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Blanche Point Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• Aldingan local stage

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, cherty/siliceous siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: recrystallized, replaced with silica

Collection methods: Collections are registered in the Western Australia Museum (WAM) and Museum of Victoria (NMV).

Primary reference: T. A. Darragh and G. W. Kendrick. 2000. Eocene bivalves and gastropods from the Pallinup Siltstone, Western Australia, with new records from the Eocene and Oligocene of southeastern Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 112(1):17-58 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48444: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.03.2005

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